Rep. Ed Markey to GOP: Do You Plan on Repealing the Law of Gravity, Too? (Video)

Aaand for our dose of Friday afternoon snark, we turn to a source where we might least expect biting sarcasm: from a sitting US Congressman. Yes, in response to the GOP's headlong legislative assault on science itself -- an effort to overturn a scientific finding they and their corporate backers find inconvenient -- the Massachusetts Representative lobbed a funny, eloquent retort their way.The humor, of course, is derived from the fact that a group of self-interested politicians are asserting that they know better than the exhaustive work of thousands of scientists, who have arrived at the near-universally agreed upon conclusion that manmade emissions are causing global temperatures to rise.